• Robert Gordon Wasson (September 22, 1898 – December 23, 1986) was an American author, ethnomycologist, and a Vice President for Public Relations at J...
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    Craig Wasson (born March 15, 1954) is an American actor. He made his film debut in Rollercoaster (1977). He is best known for his roles as Jake Scully...
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    mycologist Robert Gordon Wasson describing his experience taking psilocybin mushrooms in 1955 during a Mazatec ritual in Oaxaca, Mexico. Wasson was one of the...
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    key participant in the CIA MK-ULTRA mind-control program. In 1957, R. Gordon Wasson, the vice president of J.P. Morgan, published an article in Life magazine...
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    enthusiast, visited María Sabina's hometown, where Gordon Wasson participated in a velada with her. Wasson was the first outsider to take part in the velada...
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  • London University in 1927, one year after she married her husband R. Gordon Wasson, a banker. She worked as a pediatrician, publishing research on sinusitis...
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    Valentina Wasson and R. Gordon Wasson became the first Westerners to actively participate in an indigenous mushroom ceremony. The Wassons did much to...
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    Council on Foreign Relations in January 1947, international banker R. Gordon Wasson suggested that he share his views in an article for Foreign Affairs...
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  • Wasson is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Craig Wasson (born 1954), American actor Daniel Wasson Dave Wasson, American television producer...
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    duo Peter and Gordon R. Gordon Wasson (1898–1986), American psychedelic writer Gordon Watkins (1907—1974), American football player Gordon Williams (disambiguation)...
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  • earlier version of the rifle was known to be subject to this problem. Gordon Wasson argued that there was no evidence Morgan knew that he was participating...
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    "thorn-apple". Ethnobotanical and ethnomycological scholars such as R. Gordon Wasson, Carl Ruck and Clark Heinrich write that the mythological apple is a...
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    banker at JPMorgan Chase, Indian Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha R. Gordon Wasson – ethnomycologist and former JPMorgan vice president Banks portal New...
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  • Secret of the Mysteries, co-authored by Ruck with Albert Hofmann and R. Gordon Wasson, makes a case that the psycho-active ingredient in the secret kykeion...
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    These epidemics were known as Saint Anthony's fire, or ignis sacer. Gordon Wasson proposed that the psychedelic effects were the explanation behind the...
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    tsaritsa Natalia Naryshkina, and Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI. R. Gordon Wasson recounted the details of these deaths, noting the likelihood of Amanita...
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    Carl A.P. Ruck, Jeremy Bigwood, Danny Staples, Jonathan Ott, and R. Gordon Wasson proposed the term "entheogen" to describe the religious or spiritual...
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    of the series contains identifications of five plant entheogens. R. Gordon Wasson, Richard Evans Schultes, and Albert Hofmann have suggested that the...
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    N-Dimethyltryptamine Psychedelic experience Peyote song Reuben Snake R. Gordon Wasson Terry, M. (2017). "Lophophora williamsii". IUCN Red List of Threatened...
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    2009-02-13. Wasson, R. Gordon (1980). The Wondrous Mushroom: Mycolatry in Mesoamerica. McGraw-Hill. pp. 43–44. ISBN 978-0-07-068443-0. Wasson, Soma, p....
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    like Christian Rätsch, Jochen Gartz, and the late ethnomycologist R. Gordon Wasson. He translated Albert Hofmann's 1979 book LSD: My Problem Child (LSD:...
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    in 1956 based on material collected by American ethnomycologist R. Gordon Wasson in Paso de Cortés, on the slopes of Popocatépetl mountain in Mexico...
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    Bigwood, Danny Staples, Richard Evans Schultes, Jonathan Ott and R. Gordon Wasson). The term is derived from two words of Ancient Greek, ἔνθεος (éntheos)...
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  • of proposals were made, including an important one in 1968 by Robert Gordon Wasson, an amateur mycologist, who (on Vedic evidence) asserted that soma was...
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    Gordon Wasson tentatively postulated that the plant could be the mythological pipiltzintzintli, the "Noble Prince" of the Aztec codices. Wasson's speculation...
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  • experienced, ranging from the "purely aesthetic" to "sacramental vision". R. Gordon Wasson had a funded expedition in 1956 by the CIA's MK-Ultra subproject 58...
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  • "; Wasson, R. Gordon. . 1974. (Bk. Rev.). Economic Botany vol. 28(3):245–246. A review of Carlos Castaneda's "Tales of Power."; Wasson, R. Gordon. 1977a...
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    Pavlovna Wasson and R. Gordon Wasson became the first known European Americans to actively participate in an indigenous mushroom ceremony. The Wassons did...
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  • conversation between a patient (Albert Hofmann), a nurse and a doctor (R. Gordon Wasson), which occurs after the event in "Rosetta Stoned". The song generally...
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    featured on the cover of the magazine.[citation needed] In 1957, R. Gordon Wasson, a vice president at J. P. Morgan, published an article in Life extolling...
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